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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

’Wee Keek’ rais-

es money for

Ebola

2

XC Champion-

ships—Photo

Special

3

What a very

grumpy sheep!

4

Film Club

Launched

7

Hannah taps out

a rhythm for

Children In Need

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Vol: 6 Issue: 2 December 2014 Community Newsletter for Chirnside Primary School

On Tuesday the 9th of December, members of Chirn-

side Chasers Running Club represented Chirnside Pri-

mary School in the Berwickshire Primaries Cross Coun-

try Championships at The Berwickshire High School,

Duns. At the championships we ran in our age groups

and genders.

The P5 boys went first. Daniel Ross and Jonathan Kinsel-

la ran really well. Daniel came 3rd and Jonathan came

5th. With two top five finishes, the boys were awarded

the P5 Boys Champions title.

Then it was the turn of the P5 girls with Carys Runci-

man, Katie Donoghue and Keira McGregor who all ran

really well. Carys came 2nd overall in the P5 section with

Katie coming 10th and Keira coming home in 5th.

Afterwards it was the P6 boys turn with Oliver Stewart,

Charlie Stewart and Hamish Reynolds representing

Chirnside. Oliver came 1st, Charlie came 2nd and Ham-

ish came 3rd. Three podium places meant the boys

returned with the Primary 6 Boys Champions trophy.

Chantelle Lamont and Charlotte Craze represented

Chirnside in the Primary 6 Girls section. Chantel came

15th with Charlotte coming in close behind her.

Afterwards, it was the P7 boys’ team of Rowan Harvey,

Jack Jones and Robert Derries. Rowan came in 6th, with

Jack in 10th and Robert came in 8th. Then it was p7

girls. Tammie-Louise Hunter, Erin Douglas and Heather Kinghorn were running. Tammie came 2nd in

the P7 girls section with Erin in 10th, closely followed by Heather.

All our runners acquitted themselves well, demonstrating sportsmanship towards other competitors

and great determination in performing to their best. Well done to you all! See inside for more pho-

tos!

By Tammie-Louise Hunter and Erin Douglas P7

The P6 Boys’ team took all three podium

positions and the overall P6 Champions

title.

The P5 Boys’ team were placed in the top 5

positions and came home with the overall

P5 Champions title.

On the 30th of November Duns Pipe Band were asked to play for the official switch on of the Christmas lights in Duns Square. I play tenor drum in the band along with my older sister and another girl from Duns. We had been practicing Christmas tunes and carols for a few weeks be-fore the switch on so that it sounded good on the night. We all assembled early and dressed in our Santa suits, put fairy lights onto our drums and marched into the square. We played lots of tunes until it was time for Santa to arrive and help this year's Wynsome Maid to turn on the lights. I love playing in the band but I was glad to be finished because my beard was really itchy! Duns Pipe Band are always looking for new members, both drummers and pip-ers, if anybody wants to join us - I love it, it's great fun. by Ross Spark P7

On Sunday 16th November I did a world rec-

ord attempt tap-a-thon at Putton Mill, Duns

to raise money for Children In Need.

There were lots of young people and adults

who do tap dancing for LJ Dance Academy

who took part. A tap-a-thon is where everyone in the country

who does tap-dancing can join in with their local group. They

had the choice to buy a t-shirt (money going to Children in

Need) and wear during the tap-a-thon.

In Duns we had a photographer and a film-maker. Everyone

who took part was presented with a certificate for their efforts.

By Hannah Turner P7

Mrs Easton started a film club for P5-P7 and some pupils applied to be on the committee.

Pupils had to write a note if they wanted to be on the film committee and explain why.

Then, Mrs Easton chose two pupils from P5, P6 and P7 to be on the committee. Those elected are:

P5- Carys Runciman and Katie Donoghue

P6- Micah Chapman and Anna Brown

P7- Nicholas Warnock and Abbie Wood

The film committee have about one meeting every week to pick films

and to talk about them.

The first film picked was Elf, a story of a human that thinks he is an elf

searching for his long lost father.

When we showed the movie on Friday the 5th of December around 50

pupils showed up! Some pupils brought snacks and drinks to keep

them going throughout the movie.

Look out for the posters advertising our next screening in January.

By Anna Brown - Film Club Publicity Manager

...getting into the

festive spirit with

the movie ‘Elf’ !

Primary six at Chirnside Primary have been enterprising in

order to raise money for the Ebola crisis.

Last month, the class performed a musical drama, ‘A Wee

Keek at Flodden’ for their families and fellow pupils. The

performance was a great success and the pupils decided

to video their work to make into DVDs to sell as Christmas

presents.

Pupils learned many skills required in running a business

from marketing and financial planning to designing covers

and advertising. The profit from their enterprise for Save

the Children is estimated to be £80.

Below, Rose and Noah tell us a little more…

We started in the topic in September and now we are

finished. Our musical show linked to our topic and we

performed it to the whole school and our families on

20th November. The feedback was that we did really

well and some mums were even emotional!

Our show was called ‘A Wee Keek at Flodden’ by Mr

Iain Lothian and Primary 6.

We performed the show and Jack Jones (P7) made

a video of it. Next we made DVDs and designed a

cover.

We are selling these DVDS for the amount of £2.00.

We worked this price out because we have been do-

ing loss and profit in maths and we think if we sell

them for £2.00 we will get about £70 or £80 for Save

the Children’s Ebola Appeal.

Jack Jones was filming the play so it was only fair that he chose the charity and he chose Ebola.

Ebola is a bad disease that thousands of people are suffering from in West Africa and we are so

lucky to be living in a country where this is not such a problem.

Primary 6 are going to miss Mr Lothian and his accordion as he is leaving to go to another school

next term. We loved sharing time with him so we would like to thank him and the time he has spent

sharing his skills with us.

Happy Christmas!

Rose Easton & Noah North P6

Primary 6’s ’Wee Keek’ raises money for Ebola.

Some of the cast of ‘A Wee Keek at Flodden’ get into character

before their performance to parents.

The DVD of ‘A Wee Keek at Flodden’ is now available to buy (Pre

-order from any P6 pupil or Mrs Easton for only £2). Sadly, it will

not be available for download from iTunes or any other online

digital download store...for now!

Our pupils have been getting creative during

the last few weeks by cutting, sticking, drawing

and painting various festive and winter scenes

on classroom windows and in the assembly

hall.

Famous with locals around Berwickshire, the

‘Chirnside Windaes’ are now free for all to see

during the Christmas period. Why not pop

along and take a ‘keek’?

Photos by Mark Kinghorn

The grumpy sheep finally made it all the way to

the stable in Bethlehem to visit the new born ba-

by. Thankfully, this put her in a much better

mood, much to the relief of Mary and Joseph!

The school hall was packed for this year’s festive pro-

duction. Primary 4-7 got everyone in the Christmas

spirit with their performance of Christmas songs from

years gone by...

On the road to Bethlehem, the other sheep tried

to keep out of the way of the grumpy sheep, with

little success...

On Monday 15th December we welcomed

over 150 guests to our Christmas Concert and

Nativity.

Primary 4-7 opened the afternoon with a selec-

tion of Christmas songs and festive tunes from

years gone by. The audience were awestruck

with renditions of ‘It's Beginning to Look a Lot

Like Christmas’, ‘Rocking Around the Christmas

Tree’ and ‘Band Aid’, as well as some lesser

known numbers.

Primary 1-3 retold the Christmas Story through

the eyes of ‘The Grumpy Sheep’. Having heard

of the arrival of the new born baby Jesus from

the angels, high up on the hillside, the shep-

herds decided to take their sheep to visit the

baby in Bethlehem. The Grumpy Sheep found

this a significant inconvenience, complaining to

her friends about how unfair this was for the

whole duration of the journey!

On arriving at the stable, the true meaning of

Christmas was unveiled and the Grumpy Sheep

turned into the Happy Sheep, much to the re-

lief of her woolly friends!

On the 7th of November 2014 we had an assembly. Our assembly was

about stories of children who have suffered through illness or tragedy.

We also talked about how the Children in Need charity has helped these

children.

On Wednesday 12th of November, Pri-

mary Seven had an activity day to raise

money for Children in Need. We had

skittles, bowling, nail salon, mucky dip

and others.

We raised £337.86 for Children in Need. The activity day was a big

success and all the children had lots of fun.

By Beau McKibben

‘Soak a 7’ was very popular with young-

er siblings and school staff...

The Nail Bar was a popular attraction with

pupils...

The P7 Christmas Fair Stall

On Friday 28th of November Chirnside Primary School held a Christmas Fair in the Gym Hall.

There were lots of stalls, selling jewellery, decorations, sweets and lots more. Primary 7 had

a stall selling Christmas cakes and cards which we had made in school.

Thank you to our friends in the Chirnside Co-Op, who sponsored the ingredients we used

for the Christmas cakes.

We were selling our products to raise

money to pay for our class set of record-

ers. We raised £80, which was just

enough to pay for the recorders.

We have been learning to play recorder

with Mrs. Milne since September. Many

of us had never played a recorder before.

We have made such great progress that

we performed ‘Jingle Bells’ at the Christ-

mas service in the Parish Church.

By Thomas Weeks P7